2753 Cheshire
This is my second attempt at representing Cheshire in my collection, the first was a re-named Hornby Hawksworth 4-6-0 called County of Chester. I had four locos from that class but wanted some variety, so the GWR version was disposed of and the LNER version bought instead.
Cheshire worked in Scotland, at least from 1948, according to www.brdatabase.info
I wanted to own a small collection of pre-WW2 LNER locos in Scotland based around an ex-NBR Glen 4-4-0 (yet to be procured) and a GNR/LNER N2 0-6-2T, examples of which worked north of the border.
Some D49 "Shires" were coupled to LNER standard tenders pre-WW2, e.g. 2760 Westmorland, photographed at Glasgow Queen Street, in David Jenkinson's book "The big four in colour, 1935-50" (Pendragon, 1994, reprinted 1999)
I've yet to decide whether to source a Hornby Railroad D49 with loco-drive for a body-chassis swap. Otherwise I'm happy with the loco and may yet swap the large tension locks for something smaller to allow easier coupling to my Gresley teak carriages.
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